quicktime-java

> Apple may not really be interested in you writing for non-Mac platforms.  And 
> that
> really can't be a surprise, right?

What about Apple writing for non-Mac platforms ?
Where, for example, does that leave the Windows versions of QuickTime
and iTunes ?

It seems that Apple may have decided that there's neither value nor
benefit in developing or supporting multi-platform media technology,
leaving the likes of Adobe and Microsoft with an open field. I believe
that is a huge strategic mistake. QuickTime was (and, in some areas,
still is) ahead of the game but Apple have so publicly neglected it's
too late to save. I suppose the only consolation is that, unlike
OpenDoc, only a few misguided developers will lose out when Steve
"puts a bullet through the head of QuickTime"...

Peter


2008/10/15 Chris Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Oct 15, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Paul Loy wrote:
>
>> This is exactly why Apple should still be bothered about Java Media
>> Support. None of us who have worked with QTJ expect much, if anything, from
>> Sun. We all depend on Apple. And that's why it cuts so deep that Apple can't
>> even be bothered to tell us what's going to happen to QTJ or what we can
>> expect in the future. Apple are so good about seeding developers in other
>> areas. Why not here too?
>
> I hope this doesn't turn into a pissing match, but I guess I see no answer
> as an answer: QTJ is so dead to Apple that they don't even indulge the
> topic.  They've been pretty clear at how you're supposed to write a Mac
> media app going forward: use QTKit, or Core Audio/Video if working at that
> level makes more sense for you.  That doesn't address how you write a
> cross-platform media app, but again, maybe that silence is the point: Apple
> may not really be interested in you writing for non-Mac platforms.  And that
> really can't be a surprise, right?
>
> There's also a difference in the information available to developers who
> went to WWDC versus those who didn't, but of course, that's NDA.
>
> --Chris
>
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